Phono-graphical level Morphological levelSound instrumenting. Graphon. Graphical means. Devoid of denotational or connotational meaning a phoneme has a strong associative and sound-instrumenting power. Well-known are numerous cases of onomatopoeia - the use of words whose sounds imitate those of the signified object or action, such as "hiss", "grumble", "sizzle" and many more. Imitating the sounds of nature, man, inanimate objects, and the acoustic form of the word foregrounds the latter, inevitably emphasizing its meaning too. Thus the phonemic structure of the word proves to be important for the creation of expressive and emotive connotations. A message, containing an onomatopoeic word is not limited to transmitting the logical information only, but also supplies the vivid portrayal of the situation described. Poetry abounds in some specific types of sound-instrumenting, the leading role belonging to alliteration-the repetition of consonants, usually in the beginning ot words, and assonance-the repetition of similar vowels, usually in stressed syllables. They both may produce the effect of euphony (a sense of ease and comfort in pronouncing or hearing) or cacophony (a sense of strain and discomfort in pronouncing or hearing). To create additional information in a prose discourse sound-instrumenting is seldom used. In contemporary advertising, mass media and, above all, creative prose sound is foregrounded mainly through the change of its accepted graphical representation. This intentional violation of the graphical shape of a word (or word combination) used to reflect its authentic pronunciation is called graphon.Graphon proved to be an effective means of supplying information about the speaker's origin, social and educational background, physical or emotional condition, etc. Reader obtains not only the vivid image and the social, cultural, educational characteristics of the personages. On the other hand they may show the physical defects of the speakers-the stumbling of one and the lisping of the other.Graphon thus individualizing the character's speech. At the same time, graphon is very good at conveying the atmosphere of authentic live communication, of the informality of the speech act. Some amalgamated forms, which are the result of strong assimilation, became cliches in contemporary prose dialogue: "gimme" (give me), "lemme" (let me). Graphical changes may reflect not only the peculiarities of pronunciation, but are also used to convey the intensity of the stress, emphasizing and thus foregrounding the stressed words. To such purely graphical means, not involving the violations, we should refer all changes of the type (italics, capitalization), spacing of graphemes (hyphenation, multiplication) and of lines. According to the frequency of usage, variability of functions, the first place among graphical means of foregrounding is occupied by italics. Intensity of speech (often in commands) is transmitted through the multiplication of a grapheme or capitalization of the word, Hyphenation of a word suggests the rhymed or clipped manner in which it is uttered as in, O'Connor's story -"grinning like a chim-pan-zee".Morphemic Repetition. Extension of Morphemic Valency One important way of promoting a morpheme is its repetition. Both root and affixational morphemes can be emphasized through repetition. affixational morphemes which normally carry the main weight of the structural and not of the denotational significance, when repeated they come into the focus of attention and stress either their logical meaning (e.g. that of contrast, negation, absence of a quality as in such prefixes like a-, -anti-, mis-; or of smallness as in suffixes -ling and -ette); their emotive and evaluative meaning, as in suffixes forming" degrees of comparison; or else they add to the. rhythmical effect and text unity. The second, even more effective way of using a morpheme for the creation of additional information is extension of its normative valency which results in the formation of new words They are not neologisms in the true sense created for special communicative situations only, and are not used beyond these occasions. This is why they are called occasional words and are characterized by freshness, originality, lucidity of their inner form and morphemic structure. In case of repetition a morpheme gains much independence and bears major responsibility for the creation of additional information and stylistic effect.^ Lexical levelthe word which names, qualifies and evaluates the micro- and macrocosm of the surrounding world. The most essential feature of a word is that it expresses the concept of a thing process phenomenon, naming them. Concept is a logical category, its linguistic counter part is meaning. Meaning is the unity of generalization, communication and thinking. An entity of extreme complexity, the meaning of a word is liable to historical changes, which are responsible for the formation of an expanded semantic structure of a word. This structure is constituted of various types of lexical meanings, the major one being denotational, which informs of the subject of communication; and also including connotational, which informs about the participants and conditions of communication. The list and specification of connotational meanings varies with different linguistic schools and individual scholars and includes such entries as pragmatic (directed at the perlocutionary effect of utterance), associative (connected, through individual psychological or Linguistic associations, with related and non-related notions), ideological, or conceptual (revealing political, social, ideological preferences of the user), evaluative (stating the value of the indicated notion), emotive (revealing the emotional layer of cognition and perception), expressive (aiming at creating the image of the object in question), stylistic (indicating "the register", or the situation of the communication). The number, importance and the overlapping character of connotational meanings incorporated into the semantic structure of- a word, are brought forth by the context, i. e. a concrete speech act that identifies and actualizes each one. More than that; each context does not only specify the existing semantic (both denotational and connotational) possibilities of a word, but also is capable of adding new ones, or deviating rather considerably from what is registered in the dictionary. Because of that all contextual meanings of a word can never be exhausted or comprehensively enumerated. In semantic actualization of a word the context plays a dual role: on the one hand, it cuts off all meanings irrelevant for the given communicative situation. On the other, it foregrounds one of the meaningful options of a word, focusing the communicators' attention on one of the denotational or connonational components of its semantic structure. The significance of the context is comparatively small in the field of stylistic connotations, because the word is labeled stylistically before it enters some context, i.e So there is sense to start the survey of connotational meanings with the stylistic differentiation of the vocabulary.Stylistic Differentiation of the VocabularyLiterary Stratum of Words. Colloquial Words The word-stock of any given language can be roughly divided into three groups., differing from each other by the sphere of its possible use. The biggest division is made up of neutral words, possessing no stylistic connotation and suitable for any communicative situation, two smaller ones are literary and colloquial strata respectively. Literary words serve to satisfy communicative demands of official, scientific, poetic messages, while the colloquial ones are employed in non-official everyday communication. Taking for analysis printed materials we shall find literary words in authorial speech, descriptions, considerations, while colloquialisms will be observed in the types of discourse, simulating (copying) everyday oral communication-i.e., in the dialogue (or interior monologue) of a prose work. Each of the two named groups of words, possessing a stylistic meaning, is not homogeneous as to the quality of the meaning, frequency of use, sphere of application, or the number and character of potential users. This is why each one is further divided into the general, i. e. known to and used by most native speakers in generalized literary (formal) or colloquial (informal) communication, and special bulks. among special literary words, as „a. rule, at least two major subgroups are mentioned. They are:1. Terms, i. e. words denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique.2.Archaisms, i. e. words, a) denoting historical phenomena which are no more in use (such as "yeoman", "vassal", falconet"). These are historical words.b) used in poetry in the XVII-XIX cc. (such as "steed" for "horse"; "quoth" for "said"; "woe" for "sorrow"). These are poetic words.c) in the course of language history ousted by newer synonymic words (such as "whereof = of which; "to deem" = to think; "repast" = meal; "nay" = no) or forms ("maketh" = makes; "thou wilt" = you will; "brethren" = brothers). These are called archaic words(archaic forms) proper.In colloquial words some special subgroups may be mentioned:1. Slang forms the biggest one. Slang words, used by most speakers in very informal communication, are highly emotive and expressive and as such, lose their originality rather fast and are replaced by newer formations.; This tendency to synonymic expansion results in long chains of synonyms of various degrees of expressiveness, denoting one and the same concept. 2. Jargonisms stand close to slang, also being substandard, expressive and emotive, but, unlike slang they are used by limited groups of people, united either professionally (in this case we deal with professional jargonisms, or professionalisms), or socially (here we deal with jargonisms proper). In distinction from slang, jargonisms of both types cover a narrow semantic field: in the first case it is that, connected with the technical side of some profession.professionalisms are formed according to the existing word-building patterns or present existing words in new meanings, and, covering the field of special professional knowledge, which is semantically limited, they offer a vast variety of synonymic choices for naming one and the same professional item^ Jargonisms proper are characterized by similar linguistic features, but differ_in—function -and sphere of application. They originated from the thieves' jargon (Fargo, cant) and served to conceal the actual significance of the utterance from the uninitiated. Their major function thus was to be cryptic, secretive. This is why among them there are cases of conscious deformation of the existing words. 3. Vulgarisms are coarse words with a strong emotive meaning, mostly derogatory, normally avoided in polite conversation. 4. Dialectal words are normative and devoid of any stylistic meaning in regional dialects, but used outside of them, carry a strong flavor of the locality where they belong. In Great Britain four major dialects are distinguished: Lowland Scotch, Northern, Midland (Central) and Southern. In the USA three major dialectal varieties are distinguished: New England, Southern and Midwestern (Central, Midland). Dialects markedly differ on the phonemic level: one and the same phoneme is differently pronounced in each of them. They differ also on the lexical level, having their own names for locally existing phenomena and also supplying locally circulating synonyms for the words, accepted by the language in general. Some of them have entered the general vocabulary and lost their dialectal status ("lad", "pet", "squash", "plaid").^ Lexical Stylistic DevicesMetaphor. Metonymy. Synecdoche. Piay on Words. Irony. Epithet. Hyperbole. Understatement. Oxymoron Among multiple functions of the word the main one is to denote, denotational meaning thus being the major semantic characteristic of the word. In this paragraph we shall deal with the foregrounding of this particular function, i. e. with such types of denoting phenomena that create additional expressive, evaluative, subjective connotations.transference, -the name of one object is transferred onto another, proceeding from their similarity (of shape, colour, function, etc.), or closeness (of material existence, cause/ effect, instrument/ result. part / whole relations, etc.). Each type of intended substitution results in a stylistic device (SD)* called also a trope. The most frequently used, well known among them is a metaphor - transference of names based on the associated likeness between two objects, as in the "pancake", or "ball", or "volcano” for the "sun" ; The expressiveness of the metaphor is promoted by the implicit simultaneous presence of images of both objects-the one which is actually named and the one which supplies its own "legal" name. So that formally we deal with the name transference based on the similarity of one feature common to two different entities, the more expressive-is the metaphor. If a metaphor involves likeness between inanimate and animate objects, we deal with personification, as in "the face of London", or "the pain of the ocean". Metaphor, as all other SDs, is fresh, original, genuine, when first used, and trite, hackneyed, stale when often repeated. In the latter case it gradually loses its expressiveness becoming just another entry in the dictionary, as in the "leg of a table" thus serving a very important source of enriching the vocabulary of the language. Metaphor can be expressed by all notional parts of speech, and functions in the sentence as any of its members.Metonomy – It is use of the name of 1 thing for the another thing, the 2 things being logically related.Metonymy, another lexical SD,-like metaphor - on losing its originality also becomes instrumental in enriching the vocabulary of the language, though metonymy is created by a different semantic process and is based on nearness of objects or phenomena. two objects (phenomena) have common grounds of existence in reality.^ Play of words.Pun when one word-form is deliberately used in two meanings. The effect of these SDs is humorous. Contextual conditions leading to the simultaneous realization of two meanings and to the formation of pun may vary:it can be misinterpretation of one speaker's utterance by the other, which results in his remark dealing with a different meaning of the misinterpreted word or its homonym.^ Punning may be the result of the speaker's intended violation of the listener's expectation, as in the jocular quotation from B. Evans: "There comes. a period in every man's life, but she is just a semicolon in his. Misinterpretation may be caused by the phonetic similarity of two homonyms, such as in the crucial case of O. Wilde's play ^ The Importance of Being Earnest.Zeugma. In very many cases polysemantic verbs that have a practically unlimited lexical valency and can be combined with nouns of most varying semantic groups, are deliberately used with two or more homogeneous members, which are not connected semantically, as in such examples from Ch. Dickens: "He took his hat and his leave", or "She went home in a flood of tears and a sedan chair". This is a classical zeugma, When the number of homogeneous members, semantically disconnected, but attached to the same verb, increases, we deal with semantically false chains, which are thus a variation of zeugma. As a rule, it is the last member of the chain that falls out of the themantic group, defeating our expectancy and producing humorouse effect.Irony The essence of irony consists in the foregrounding not of the logical but of the evaluative meaning. The context is arranged so that the qualifying word in irony reverses the direction of the evaluation, and the word positively charged is understood as a negative qualification and (much-much rarer) vice versa. Irony thus is a stylistic device in which the contextual evaluative meaning of a word is directly opposite to its dictionary meaning. So, like all other SDs irony does not exist outside the context, which varies from the minimal-a word combination, as in J. Steinbeck's "She turned with the sweet smile of an alligator,"-to the context of a whole book, as in Ch. Dickens, where one of the remarks of Mr. Micawber, known for his complex, highly bookish and elaborate style of speaking about the most trivial things, is introduced by the author's words "...Mr. Micawber said in his usual plain manner". In the stylistic device of irony it is always possible to indicate the exact word whose contextual meaning diametrically opposes its dictionary meaning. This is why this type of irony is called verbal irony. There are very many cases, though, which we regard as irony, intuitively feeling the reversal of the evaluation, but unable to put our finger on the exact word in whose meaning we can trace the contradiction between the said and the implied. The effect of irony in such cases is created by a number of statements, by the whole of the text. This type of irony is called sustained, and it is formed by the contradiction of the speaker's (writer's) considerations and the generally accepted moral and ethical codes.Antonomasia is a lexical SD in which a proper name is used instead of a common noun or vice versa, i.e. a SD, in which the nominal meaning of a proper name is suppressed by its logical meaning or the . logical meaning acquires the new-nomirial-component. The word "Mary" does not indicate whether the denoted object refers to the class of women, girls, boats, cats, etc., for it singles out without denotational classification. But in Th. Dreiser we read: "He took little satisfaction in telling each Mary, shortly after she arrived, something...." The attribute "each", used with the name, turns it into a common noun denoting any woman. Here we deal with a case of antonomasia of the first type. Another type of antonomasia we meet when a common noun serves as an individualizing name, as in D. Cusack: "There are three doctors in an illness like yours. I don't mean only myself, my partner and the radiologist who does your X-rays, the three I'm referring to are Dr. Rest, Dr. Diet and Dr. Fresh Air." Still another type of antonomasia is presented by the so-called "speaking names"-names whose origin from common nouns is still clearly perceived such names immediately raise associations with certain human qualities. Epithet expresses a characteristic of an object, both existing and imaginary. Our speech ontologically being always emotionally coloured, it is possible to say that in epithet it is the emotive meaning of the word that is foregrounded to suppress the denotational meaning of the latter. Epithet is the most widely used SD Through long and repeated use epithets become fixed. The structure and semantics of epithets are extremely variable which is explained by their long and wide use. Semantically, there should be differentiated two main groups, the biggest of them being affective (or emotive proper). These epithets serve to convey the emotional evaluation of the object by the speaker. The second group figurative, or transferred, epithets -is formed of metaphors, metonymies and similes expressed by adjectives. E.g. "the smiling sun", corresponding epithets are based on similarity of characteristics of two objects in the first case, on nearness of the qualified objects in the second one, and on their comparison in the third.^ Epithets are used singly, in pairs, in chains, in two-step structures, and in inverted constructions, also as phrase-attributes. All previously given examples are single epithets. Pairs are represented by two epithets joined by a conjunction or asyndetically as in "wonderful and incomparable beauty” Chains (also called strings) of epithets present a group of homogeneous attributes. E.g. "You're a scolding, unjust, abusive, aggravating, bad old creature." Two-step epithets are so called because the process of qualifying seemingly passes two stages: the qualification of the object and the qualification of the qualification itself, as in "an unnaturally mild day" (Hut.), or "a pompously majestic female". (D.) As you see from the examples, two-step epithets have a fixed structure of Adv + Adj model.Phrase-epithets always produce an original impression. Cf.: "the sunshine-in-the-breakfast-room smell" a semantically self-sufficient word combination or even a whole sentence, which loses some of its independence and self-sufficiency, becoming a member of another sentence, A different linguistic mechanism is responsible for the emergence of one more structural type of epithets, namely, Inverted epithets. They are based on the contradiction between the logical and the syntactical "this devilish woman", "this devil of a woman". All inverted epithets are easily transformed into epithets of a more habitual structure where there is no logicosyntactical contradiction. When meeting an inverted epithet do not mix it up with an ordinary of-phrase. Here the article with the second noun will help you in doubtful cases: "the toy of the girl"= toy belonging to the girl); "the toy of a girl" = a small toylike girl.Hyperbole-a stylistic device in which emphasis is achieved through deliberate exaggeration,-like epithet relies on the foregrounding of the emotive meaning. E.g.: Marvel "My vegetable love should grow faster than empires."Hyperbole is one of the most common expressive means of our everyday speech. When we describe our admiration or anger and say "I would gladly see this film a hundred times", or "I have told it to you a thousand times"-we use trite language hyperboles which, through long and repeated "use, have lost their originality and remained signals of the speaker's roused emotions.Hyperbole may be the final effect of another SD-metaphor, simile, irony, as we have in the case "The man was like the Rock of Gibraltar".Hyperbole can be expressed by all notional parts of speech. There are words though, which are used in this SD more often than others. They are such pronouns as “all", "every" "everybody" and the like. Also numerical nouns ("a million", "a thousand"), and adverbs of time ("ever", "never").Hyperbole is aimed at exaggerating quantity or quality. When it is directed the opposite way, when the size, shape, dimensions, characteristic features of the object are not overrated, but intentionally underrated, we deal with understatement. The mechanism of its creation and functioning is identical with that of hyperbole, and it does not signify the actual state of affairs in reality, but presents the latter through the emotionally colored perception and rendering of the speaker. "I am rather annoyed" instead of "I'm infuriated", Some hyperboles and understatements (both used individually and as the final effect of some other SD) have become fixed.Oxymoron is stylistic device the syntactic and semantic structures of which come to clashes. Oxymoron is a combination of two semantically contradictory notions, that help to emphasize contradictory Qualities as a dialectal unity simultaneously existing in the described phenomenon. As a rule, one of the two members of oxymoron illuminates the feature which is universally observed and acknowledged while the other one offers a purely subjective individual perception of the object. Thus in an oxymoron we deal with the foregrounding of emotive meaning, The most widely known structure of oxymoron is attributive, But there are also others, in which verbs are employed. Such verbal structures as "to shout mutely" (I. Sh.) or "to cry silently" (M. W.) seem to strengthen the idea, which leads to the conclusion that oxymoron is a specific type of epithet. But the peculiarity of an oxymoron lies in the fact that the speaker's (writer's) subjective view can be expressed through either of the members of the word combination. Originality and specificity of oxymoron becomes especially evident in non-attributive structures which" also, not infrequently, are used to express semantic contradiction, as in "the street damaged by improvements" (О. Н.) or "silence was louder than thunder" (U.)^ Syntactical level if a sentence opens with the main clause, which is followed "by dependent units, such a structure is called loose," it's less emphatic and is highly characteristic of informal writing and conversation, Periodic sentences, on the contrary, open with subordinated clauses, absolute and participial constructions, the main clause being withheld until the end-Such structures are known for their emphasis and are used mainly in creative prose. Similar structuring of the beginning of the sentence and its end produces" balanced sentences known for stressing the logic and reasoning of the content and thus preferred in publicist writing. The intonation in written form is shown through the word order and punctuation.Punctuation also specifies the communicative type of the sentence. A point of interrogation marks a question and a full stop signals a statement. There are cases though when a statement is crowned with a question mark. Often this punctuation-change is combined with the change of word-order, the latter following the pattern of question. This peculiar interrogative construction which semantically remains a statement is called a rhetorical question. Unlike an ordinary question the rhetorical question does not demand any information but serves to express the emotions of the speaker and also to call the attention of listeners. The interrogative intonation and/or punctuation draw the attention of listeners (readers) to the focus of the utterance. Rhetorical Questions are also often asked in "unanswerable" cases, “What have I done to deserve..." The effect of the majority of syntactical stylistic devices depends on either the completeness of the structure or on the arrangement of its members. The order, in which words (clauses) follow each other is of extreme importance for it's connotational meanings. RepetitionAs a syntactical SD repetition is recurrence of the same word, word combination, phrase for two and more times. According to the place which the repeated unit occupies in a sentence (utterance), repetition is classified onto several types:1.anaphora: the beginning of some sentences (clauses)Is repeated- . a..,r a..., a... . The main stylistic function of anaphora is not so much to emphasize the repeated unit as to create the background for the nonrepeated unit, which, through its novelty, becomes foregrounded. The background-forming function of anaphora is also evident from the kind of words which are repeated anaphorically. 2. epiphora: the end of successive sentences (clauses) is repeated-...a- ...a, ...a. The main function of -epiphora-is to add stress to the final words of the sentence.3. framing: the beginning of the sentence is repeated in the end, thus forming the frame" for the non-repeated part of the Sentence (utterance) a...a. 4. catch repetition (anadiplosis): the end of one clause (sentence) is repeated in the beginning of the following one-...a, a... . 5. chain repetition: presents several successive anadiplosis- ...a, а...b, b...c, c... . The effect is that of the smoothly developing logical reasoning. 6. ordinary repetition has no definite place in the sentence and the repeated unit occurs in various positions-...a, ...a..., a... . Ordinary repetition emphasizes both the logical and the emotional meanings of the reiterated word (phrase)... 7. successive repetition is a string of closely following each Other reiterated units-...a, a, a... . This is the most emphatic type-of repetition which-signifies the peak of emctions of the speaker. repetition is a powerful means of emphasis. Besides, repetition, adds rhythm and balance to the utterance. The latter function is the major one in parallel constructions which may be viewed, as a purely "syntactical type of repetition for here we deal with the reiteration of the structure of several successive sentences (clauses), and not of their lexical "flesh". True enough, parallel constructions almost always include some type of lexical repetition too, and such a convergence produces a very strong effect, foregrounding at one go logical, rhythmic,. emotive and expressive aspects of the utterance. Reversed parallelism is called chiasmus: The second part of a chiasmus is, in fact, inversion of the first construction. Thus, if the first sentence (clause) has a direct word order-SPO, the second one will have it inverted-OPS.Inversion which was briefly mentioned in the definition of chiasmus" is very often used as an independent SD in which the direct word order is changed either completely so that the predicate (predicative) precedes the subject, or partially so that the object precedes the subject-predicate pair. Correspondingly, we differentiate between a partial and a complete inversion. Stylistic inversion deals with the rearrangement of the normative word order. Questions may also be rearranged: "Your mother is at home?" The inverted question presupposes the answer with more certainty than the normative one. It is the assuredness of the speaker of the positive answer that constitutes additional information which is brought into the question by the inverted word order. Interrogative constructions with the direct word order may be viewed as cases of two step (double) inversion: direct w / o -> grammatical inversion -> direct w / o. Still another SD dealing with the arrangement of members of the sentence is suspense-a deliberate postponement of the completion of the sentence. The theme, that which is known, and the rheme, that which is new, of the sentence are distanced from each other and the new information is with held, creating the tension of expectation. Technically, suspense is organized with the help of embedded clauses (homogeneous members) separating the predicate from the subject and introducing less important facts and details first, while the expected information of major importance is reserved till the end of the sentence. A specific arrangement of sentence members is observed in detachment, a stylistic device based on singling out a secondary member of the sentence with the help of punctuation (intonation). The word-order here is not violated, but secondary members obtain their own stress and intonation because they are detached from the rest of the sentence by commas, dashes or even a full stop as in the following cases: "He had been nearly killed, ingloriously, in a jeep accident." (I. Sh.) they are foregrounded into the focus of the reader's attention.^ The completeness of sentence structure.Ellipsis - deliberate omission of at last one member of the sentence . usually used in dialogue.Ellipsis is the basis of the so-called telegraphic style, in which connectives and redundant words are left out. The biggest contributors to the telegraphic style are one-member sentences, i.e. sentences consisting only of a nominal group, which is semantically and communicatively self-sufficient. In creative prose one-member sentences are mostly used in descriptions (of nature, interior, appearance, etc.), where they produce the effect of a detailed but laconic picture foregrounding its main components; and as the background of dialogue, mentioning the emotions, attitudes, moods of the speakers. In apokoinu constructions the omission of the adverbial connective creates a blend of the main and the subordinate clauses so that the predicative or the object of the first one is simultaneously used as the subject of the second one. Cf.: "There was a door led into the kitchen." (Sh. A.) "He was the man killed that deer." The last SD which promotes the incompleteness of sentence] structure is break (aposiopesis).Break is also used mainly in the dialogue or in other forms of narrative imitating spontaneous oral speech. It reflects the emotional or / and the psychological state of the speaker: a sentence may be broken because the speaker's emotions prevent him from finishing' it. Another cause of the break is the desire to cut shorn the information with which the sentence began. In such cases there are usually special remarks by the author, indicating the intentional abruptness of the end. In many cases break is the result of the speaker's uncertainty as to what exactly he is to promise (to threaten, to beg).To mark the break dashes and dots are used. It is only in cast-iron structures that full stops may also appear, as in the well-known phrases "Good intentions, but", or "It depends".^ Lexico-Syntactical Stylistic DevicesAntithesis. Сlimax. Anticlimax, Simile. Litotes, Periphrasis Syntactical stylistic devices add logical, emotive, expressive information to the utterance regardless of lexical meanings of sentence components. There are certain structures though, whose emphasis depends not only on the arrangement of sentence members but also on their construction, with definite demands on the lexico-semantic aspect of the utterance. They are known as lexico-syntactical SDs.Antithesis is a good example of them: syntactically antithesis is just another case of parallel constructions. But unlike parallelism, which is indifferent to the semantics of its components, the two parts of an antithesis must be semantically opposite to each other, as in the sad maxim of O. Wilde: "Some people have much to live on, and. little to live for", where "much" and "little" present a pair of antonyms, supported by the contextual opposition of postpositions "on" and "for". The main function of antithesis is to stress the heterogeneity of the described phenomenon, to show that the latter is a dialectical unity of two (or more) opposing features. Another type of semanticaily complicated parallelism is presented by climax, in which each next word combination (clause, sentence) is logically more important or emotionally stronger and more explicit: "Better to borrow, better to beg better to die!" (D.) in climax we deal with, strings of synonyms or at least semanticaily related words belonging to the same thematic group.The negative form of the structures participating in the formation of climax reverses the order in which climax-components are used, as in the following examples: "No tree, to shrub, no blade of grass that was not owned."Proceeding from the nature of the emphasized phenomenon it is possible to speak of logical, emotive or quantitative types of climax. The most widely spread model of climax is a three-step construction, in which intensification of logical importance, of emotion or quantity (size, dimensions) is gradually rising from step to step In emotive climax though, we rather often meet a two-step structure, in which the second part repeats the first one and is further strengthened by an intensifier, as in the following instances: "He was, so helpless, so very helpless." (W. D.) "She felt better, immensely better." (W. D.) "I have been so unhappy here, so very very unhappy." (D.)Climax suddenly interrupted by an unexpected turn of the thought which defeats expectations of the reader (listener) and ends in complete semantic reversal of the emphasized idea, is called anticlimax. To stress the abruptness of the change emphatic punctuation (dash, most often) is used between the ascending and the descending parts of the anticlimax. Quite a few paradoxes are closely connected with anticlimax.Simile is an imaginative comparison of two unlike objects belonging to two different classes. The one which is compared is called the tenor, the one with which it is compared, is called the vehicle. The tenor and the vehicle form the two semantic poles" of the simile, which are connected by one of the following link words: "like", "as", "as though", "as like", "such as", "as...as", etc. different; objects belonging to the same class are likened in a simple comparison, while in" a simile we deal with, the likening of objects belonging to two different classes. So, "She is like her mother" is a simple comparison, used to state an evident fact. "She is like a rose" is a simile used for purposes of expressive evaluation, emotive explanation, highly individual description. The tenor and the vehicle may be expressed in a brief "nucleus" manner, as in the above example, or may be extended. This last case of sustained expression of likeness is known as epic, or Homeric simile. In a simile two obiects are compared on the grounds of similarity of some quality. This feature which is called foundation of a simile. Simiies in which the link between the tenor and the vehicle is expressed by notional verbs such as "to resemble", "to seem", "to- recollect", "to remember", "to look like", "to appear", etc. are called disguised, because the realization of the comparison is somewhat suspended, as the likeness between the objects seems less evident. Cf.: "The ball appeared to the batter to be a slow spinning planet looming toward the earth." (В. М.)Litotes is a two-component structure in which two negations are joined to give a positive evaluation. Thus "not unkindly" actually means "kindly", though the positive effect is weakened and some lack of the speaker's confidence in his statement is implied. The first component of a litotes is always the negative particle "not", while the second, always negative in semantics, varies in form from a negatively affixed word (as above) to a negative phrase. The function of litotes has much in common with that of understatement-both weaken the effect of the utterance. The uniqueness of litotes lies in its specific "double negative" structure and in its weakening only the positive evaluation.Periphrasis is a very peculiar stylistic device which basically consists of using a roundabout form of expression instead of a simpler one, i.e. of using, a more or less complicated syntactical structure instead of a word. Depending on the mechanism of this substitution, periphrases are classified into figurative (metonymic and metaphoric), and logical.The first group is made, in fact, of phrase-metonymies and phrase-metaphors,"The hospital was crowded with the surgically interesting products of the fighting in Africa" (I. Sh.) where the extended metonymy stands for "the wounded".Logical periphrases are phrases synonymic with the words which were substituted by periphrases: "Mr. Du Pont was dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers cover the shame of American millionaires." (M. St.)The main function of periphrases is to convey a purely individual perception of the described object. To achieve it the generally accepted nomination of the object is "replaced by the description of one of, its features or qualities, which seems to the author most important for the characteristic of the object, and which thus becomes foregrounded.^ CHAPTER IV. TYPES OF NARRATIONAuthor's Narrative. Dialogue. Interior Speech. Represented Speech. Compositional FormsThe author's narrative supplies the reader with direct information about the author's preferences and objections, bе1ieth and сcontradictions, i. e. serves the major source of shaping up the author's image. In contemporary prose, in an effort to make his writing more plausible, to impress the reader with the effect of authenticity of The described events, the writer entrusts some fictitious character (who might also participate in the narrated events)with the task of story-telling. The writer himself thus hides behind the figure of the-narrator, presents all the events of the story from the latter's viewpoint and only sporadically emerges in the narrative with his own considerations which may reinforce, or contradict those expressed by the narrator this form of the author's speech 'is called entrusted narrative. ^ Entrusted narrative may also be anonymous. The narrator does not openly claim responsibility for the views and evaluations but the manner of presentation, the angle of description very strongly suggest that the story is told not by the author himself but by some of his factotums—which we see, e. g., in the prose of Fl. O'Connor, С McClures, E. Hemingway, E. Caldwell. The narrative, both the author's and the entrusted, is not the only type of narration observed in creative prose. A very important place here is occupied by dialogue, where personages express their minds in the form of uttered speech. In their exchange of remarks the participants of the dialogue, while discussing other people and their actions, expose themselves too. So dialogue is one of the most significant forms of the personage's self-characterization, which allows the author to seemingly eliminate himself from the process. Another form, which obtained a position of utmost significance in contemporary prose, is interior speech of the personage. which allows the author (and the readers) to peep into the inner world of the character, to observe his ideas and views in the making So the personage's viewpoint can be realized in the uttered (dialogue) and inner (interior speech) forms. Both are introduced into the text by the author's remarks containing indication of the personage (his name or the name-substitute) and of the act of speaking (thinking) expressed by such verbs as "to say", "to think" and their numerous synonyms. The last-the fourth-type of narration blend of the viewpoints and language spheres of both the author and the character. It was first observed and analysed almost a hundred years ago, with the term represented (reported) speech attached to it. Represented speech serves to show either the mental reproduction of a once uttered remark, or the character's thinking. The first case is known as represented uttered speech, the second one as represented inner speech. The four types of narration are singled out on the basis of the viewpoint commanding the organization of each one. If it is semantics of the text that is taken as the foundation of the classification then we shall deal with the three narrative compositional forms traditionally analyzed in poetics and stylistics. They are: narrative proper where the unfolding of the plot is concentrated. dynamic compositional form of the text. Two other forms description and argumentation-are static. All the compositional forms can be found in each of the types of narration but with strongly varying frequences.^ CHAPTER V. FUNCTIONAL STYLESColloquial vs. Literary Type of Communication. Oral vs. Written Form of Communication The former is observed in everyday non-official communication which is known as colloquial speech. Colloquial speech occupies a prominent place in our lives, and is viewed by some linguists as a system of language means so strongly differing from those presented in the formal (literary) communication that it can be classified as an independent entity with its own peculiar units and rules of their structuring, The literary communication, most often (but not always) materialized in the written form, is not homogeneous, and proceeding from its function (purpose) we speak of different functional styles. As the whole of the language itself, functional styles are also changeable. At present most scholars differentiate such functional styles: scientific, official, publicist, newspaper, belles-lettres.Scientific style is employed in professional communication. Its most conspicuous feature is the abundance of terms denoting objects, phenomena and processes characteristic of some particular field of science and technique..Official style, or the style of official documents, is the most conservative one. It preserves cast-iron forms of structuring and uses syntactical constructions and words long known as archaic and not observed anywhere else. Publicist style Nowadays political, ideological, ethical, social beliefs and statements of the addresser are prevailingly expressed in the written form; which was labelled publicist in accordance with the name of the corresponding genre and its practitioners. Publicist style is famous for its explicit pragmatic function of persuasion directed at influencing the reader and shaping his views, in accordance with the argumentation of the author. Correspondingly, we find in publicist style a blend of the rigourous logical reasoning, reflecting the objective state of things, and a strong subjectivity reflecting the author's personal feelings and emotions towards the discussed subject.Newspaper style, as it is evident from its name, is found in newspapers. When we mention "newspaper style", we mean informative materials; characteristic of newspaper only and not found in other publications. To attract the reader's attention to the news, special graphical means are used: the change of type, specific headlines, space ordering, etc. We find here a large proportion of dates and personal names of countries, territories, institutions, individuals. Belles-lettres style, or the style of creative literature may be called the richest register of communication: besides its own language means which are not used in any other sphere of communication, belles-lettres style makes ample use of other styles too, for in numerous works of literary art we find elements of scientific, official and other functional types of speech. belles-lettres style has a unique task to impress_the reader aesthetically. The form becomes meaningful and carries additional information. Boundless possibilities of expressing one's thoughts and feelings make the belles-lettres style a highly attractive field of investigation for a linguist. The first point to remember concerns the dichotomy-written;: oral, which is not synonymous to the dichotomy-literary;: colloquial, the former opposition meaning the form of presentation, the latter the choice of language means. There are colloquial messages in the written form (such as personal letters, informal notes, diaries and journals) and vice versa, we have examples of literary discourses the oral form (as in a recital, lecture, report, paper react at conference, etc.). The second point deals with the flexibility of style boundaries: the borders within which a style presumably functions are not rigid and allow various degrees of overlapping and melting into each other. It is not accidental that rather often we speak of intermediate cases such as the popular scientific style which combines the features of scientific and belles-lettres styles, or the style of new journalism which is combination of publicist, newspaper and belles-letters styles, etc.